(CNN)-- Three former guerrilla leaders -- who helped command what one activist called "one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days" -- were sentenced Wednesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone ...

Three former top RUF leaders were convicted this year of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Leonardo DiCaprio movie "Blood Diamond" (2006) is set in Sierra Leone during the civil war ...

Nurse Kadiatu Dumbuya stands outside her ward at the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital where she treats women ...

a London human rights lawyer and former judge on the Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal. “Aggression is the supreme crime. Many other deaths and maimings follow from an act of war.” He said the court ...

It reinforces the principles that the tribunal applies the law equally and operates free from political influence by the Sierra Leone ... constituted a war crime at least since 1996, when the ...

In Sierra Leone, a war is being waged against the civilian ... to bring the perpetrators of gross human rights abuses and war crimes to justice. RUF members suspected of having committed human ...

He was found guilty at his trial of 11 crimes including terrorism, rape, murder and the use of child soldiers by rebel groups in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the vicious civil war of 1991-2002.

Charles Taylor, the exiled former leader of Liberia who escaped custody days after Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo agreed to transfer him to face war crimes charges in Sierra Leone.

"We are waging a war against kush to save the youths ... director of the police's crime services. The Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio said earlier this month that drug abuse in the country ...